Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having failed at persuasion, Johnson tried ill-disguised pressure. He ordered a freeze on all nonessential government spending-notably the pork-barrel, river and harbor projects so dear to most Congressmen-as an economy move. To avoid the appearance of arm twisting, Johnson did not announce the move himself, instead reiterated his plea to Congress to enact his tax bill and cut expenditures. "I know it is not a popular thing for a President to do-to ask anyone for a penny out of a dollar to pay for a war that is not popular," Johnson told savings-and-loan...
...indeed. Prior to the August testimony, McConnell and his Navy counterpart, Admiral Thomas Moorer, had demanded air strikes on the 30-mile "buffer zone" between North Viet Nam and China, along with heavy attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong harbor. Since then, while bombers have not directly struck Haiphong's docks through which the bulk of North Viet Nam's war material moves, they have cut off rail and road links between the port and the rest of the country. The buffer zone and Hanoi itself have been hit sporadically, with pilots striking only at specific military targets...
...Though geographically remote and relatively small, the Viet Nam conflict has divided and disconcerted the nation more than any other single issue since the pre-Pearl Harbor debate over...
...stable. To ease pressure on the Marines at the DMZ, the U.S. could stage an Inchon-style landing north of the 17th parallel, silence the guns that are raking Con Thien and Gio Linh, and pull out again. And, as the Joint Chiefs unanimously recommend, bombers could mine Haiphong harbor-a proposal that has consistently been rejected by Johnson, Mc-Namara and Dean Rusk. Were Haiphong choked off, argues Joint Chief Chairman General Earle Wheeler, most of the $1-billion-a-year flow of arms from Russia would dry up and the war would end in a "relatively" short time...
...estimated 30% from reaching the South. The air raids have disrupted highways, bridges, rail lines and infiltration routes, so that at least one out of eight men ordered South never makes it. Moreover, 500,000 civilians have been diverted to undo what the bombers have done. While Haiphong harbor is still a prohibited target, the bombing of adjacent bridges, warehouses and marshaling yards has reduced the port to chaos; last week the one intact bridge leading out of the city was cut, thereby isolating Haiphong until the repair crews get to work. The bombing has not completely choked...